We’ve all been there. You just about think you’ve got your team in a nice rhythm and your burn-downs are starting to look a bit less painful to slide down but, objectively speaking, your team capacity is pants.
You look at drag and it’s bad and getting worse.
The first thing I’d take a look at for [...]
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Handling live support in a Scrum team
Thomas – my new best mate…
So I’m now a licensed by Thomas International to deliver, read, interpret and generally use to my advantage their Personal Profile Analysis reports. I’ve finished the training, searched my soul and bared my flaws and frustrations in front of a “support group” (read:class) of like minded HR professionals…
Oh, hang on a minute, I’m not an [...]
Testers are not a “nice to have”
One of the things I will always have with me on my first day in any job is a USB memory stick with Joel’s list on it. A colleague and friend brought it to my attention a while ago now and it’s a great point of reference for any software team. Sitting at number 10 on [...]
Outsourcing doesn’t work unless you “sit on them” – Rubbish!
By virtue of what can only have been a “few spare chairs”, I found myself at the inaugural IT Leaders Forum a couple of weeks ago at the Imperial War Museum and spent a part of my afternoon chewing the fat in the company of many of the C-level execs from the IT departments of a veritable [...]
Why does Scrum REALLY work?
Type “Scrum” into Google and you’ll get a plethora of articles about Artefacts, Roles and Ceremonies and all that good stuff. You’ll also get plenty of information about “Business Value”, “Adapting to a changing environment”, “Work tracking”, “Process improvement” etc, etc, etc. All that stuff is great. The former makes users of Scrum feel like [...]
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